National Collaborating Centre For Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
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Reports a good health care strategy should include: health professions communicating in the local language, combining local knowledge with modern medicine, community control and development, and use Aboriginal concepts of health in care and policy.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 111-129
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Argues that not all culture change is an assimilationist move and that it is in everyday behaviors where the true flexible nature of culture can be observed.
Results of interviews with 16 study participants grouped into five themes: identity, family and community, violence, systemic racism/colonialism, social networks/supports, and resiliency and integrity.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 1, no. 1, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Seventh Gathering, August 2016, pp. 83-96
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Argues that despite government rhetoric, Australia has failed to confront the racism shown in its past and current treatment of Aboriginals, and little progress has been made toward creating a new relationship.
Describes the situation in Davis Inlet and Sheshatshiu regarding kids sniffing gas, and tells a tragic story of 11-year-old Charles Rich who died after accidentally setting himself on fire.
Duration: 15:50.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Indigenous Women, July/August/September 2000, pp. 10-11
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Declaration contains recommendations created at the Special Session of the General Assembly at the United Nations.
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Recommends more Indigenous students in information science and increased collaboration between archives and Indigenous communities to decolonize archival methodology.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
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Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 28-48
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Looks at an anti-racism strategy adopted by Indigenous academics and students as a tool to address racist language in a manner that avoids the emotive or combative nature of unstructured discussions about the impacts of racism.
Court considered whether registration provisions, which determine eligibility for status, in the Indian Act continued to discriminate against women and their descendants and limited their ability to pass on status, as compared to men. Found that several sections infringed on rights found in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declared those sections inoperative, and gave Canadian government 18 months to enact new legislation.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016, pp. 98-100
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Book review: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada: Beyond the Social edited Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay, and Charlotte Reading.
Focuses on barriers to programs including health and social barriers, those related to community infrastructure and housing, and impacts of low economic activity and remoteness.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 1, 2016, pp. 105-124
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Community driven approach on a small (13) sample group indicate interventions do result in a reduction in negative thinking, depression and suicidal thoughts.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 162, no. 7, April 4, 2000, p. 969
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Argues that prevalence of diabetes is due to diet rather than socioeconomic or genetic factors. Response to letter by John Anderson published in vol. 162, no.1.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 44, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 114-134
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Paper argues that in five decades hunting and gathering has diminished but economic development policies and funding have failed to develop a viable wage economy.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 39, no. 3, 2016, pp. [1]-25
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Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action report which calls for the integration of Indigenous Knowledge and teaching methods into the curriculum and provides better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall , 2016, pp. 23-51
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Argues that the character's response to the continued abuse by her husband, which leads her to murder him in order to possess their money and land, is a reference to settlers' feelings of entitlement to Indigenous lands.